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Maarten van Heemskerck

The Roman Sketchbook

Mitarbeit: Fuchs, Rutger; van Heemskerck, Maarten;Text: Bartsch, Tatjana; Melzer, Christien

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Between 1532 and 1536/37, the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck traveled to Rome. Most of the drawings created there were made by van Heemskerck in a sketchbook that he filled with motifs as he wandered through the city, and whose original binding has been lost. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology, researchers at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett have now largely reconstructed the original sequence of the book's pages. This forms the basis of the present facsimile. In his fascinating studies, van Heemskerck captured the ancient sculptures, ruins, and Roman cityscapes. His sketches display a r...

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The Roman sketchbooks of Maarten van Heemskerck are unique testimonies to the Eternal City from a time before photography. In 2021, as part of an extensive restoration, the original order of the 200 sheets was largely reconstructed as part of an extensive restoration, which was mainly due to the … Mehr The Roman sketchbooks of Maarten van Heemskerck are unique testimonies to the Eternal City from a time before photography. In 2021, as part of an extensive restoration, the original order of the 200 sheets was largely reconstructed as part of an extensive restoration, which was mainly due to the fact that 179 of them are still kept together in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett. There is no other collection of Renaissance travel sketches of this size in the world. The sketches were created during Heemskerck's Rome journey between 1532 and 1537 and they show architecture, landscape and antique art treasures from important Roman collections of the time. The urban landscapes are also of particular interest, documenting both the state of the Roman ruins and the omnipresent emergence of the ‘New Rome’ in the early Renaissance. Heemskerck's drawings of the new St Peter's Church are unique and are of the highest architectural-historical value. The sheets, presented in display cases on both sides, are currently on show in the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings). If you want to get an authentic impression of what Heemskerck's sketchbook originally looked like, this excellent facsimile in original size is a document that has never existed in this quality before. The original sequence of pages has been restored and the few missing pages were replaced by placeholders, so that the volume comes as close as possible to the original, which served as an important source of inspiration for Maarten van Heemskerck and even his successors. It impressively documents Heemskerck's mastery of drawing, which, according to tradition, he practised daily and the essence of which is this sketchbook. The epilogue briefly summarises the history of origin and provenance and classifies the art-historical value of the sketchbooks for Heemskerck's work (and that of his successors). The approach to the restoration and reorganisation of the sheets is also described. Fortunately, the paper has a texture very similar to the original material, matt, yet smooth and dense. This is not the first facsimile of Heemskerck's sketchbook, but it is by far the best in terms of quality. Weniger

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